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To just want it to be autumn now?

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cravingcrispmornings · 02/08/2026 15:03

I hate the depths of winter (January and February) with a passion, but my god I am craving those lovely September days where it’s not so hot you feel sweaty by 8am, and you're able to walk around without feeling disgusting.

I want soups and stews and pies back on the menu instead of pasta and salads, I want a piping hot bowl of leek and potato soup with a crusty bit of bread, a steak and ale pie with a helping of buttery mash, a roast dinner.

I’m sick of wearing dresses and sandals, I have a Birkenstock tan line ffs. I want to get into bed and feel cosy, not just have a sheet over the top of me. I’m craving a cosy autumn afternoon, a nice walk through orange woods and coming back to a lovely bowl of stew with a helping of crusty bread, tucked under a blanket reading a book.

I’m just bloody sick of summer!

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cravingcrispmornings · 02/08/2026 16:26

neverbeenskiing · 02/08/2026 16:23

I've just got back from a very unpleasant train journey where you could see the sweat literally dripping off people. It was grim.

It’s so horrid. I’ve left puddles at some points! Horrid

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neverbeenskiing · 02/08/2026 16:23

I've just got back from a very unpleasant train journey where you could see the sweat literally dripping off people. It was grim.

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:23

BIossomtoes · 02/08/2026 16:19

Not here. Apparently it’s going to rain next Saturday then more of the same.

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Not sure where ‘here’ is. I’m keeping an eye on London. It’s not ‘hot’ from Wednesday to Sunday next week. Or not what I would consider hot at all.

I think a big part of it is lifestyle. If you go out at night a lot (as I do), you remember all the times you needed a jacket and the times you forgot your jacket and were absolutely freezing. Despite it having been a lovely 26 degrees during the day.

KeeepWalking · 02/08/2026 16:21

Agree. Just desperate for skme rainy weather in suffolk, and feel like I've been hibernating from the heat for the whole summer. Also totally sleep deprived....

Nourishinghandcream · 02/08/2026 16:21

Totally agree.👍

Never been a sun lover and spring/autumn have always been my favourite seasons but unfortunately, spring seems to be starting earlier and getting warmer/drier and autumn is a desperate time with nature trying to recover before winter.☹️
These long, hot days are not great and a heatwave is my idea of hell.

RampantIvy · 02/08/2026 16:19

We don't have the sapping relentless heat here in South Yorkshire, the nights are a lot fresher and I don't want soups, stews and feeling claustrophobic "cosy" either.

However, we need rain - lots of it (at night only please). The fields are crispy, we have too many wildfires and the livestock can't graze. The price of meat and milk will rocket.

Pray for rain.

BIossomtoes · 02/08/2026 16:19

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:18

Well then you don’t need to wait until autumn. The weather is turning to shit next week in most parts of the country.

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Not here. Apparently it’s going to rain next Saturday then more of the same.

pucelleauxblanchesmains · 02/08/2026 16:19

I snapped out of the twee cosy autumn loving when I unaccountably developed SAD in my mid 20s. I don't particularly enjoy heatwaves either but no amount of chunky knitwear and steaming mugs of hot chocolate makes up for having to sit next to a special lamp like a lizard just so I'm not too sad to function.

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:18

cravingcrispmornings · 02/08/2026 16:17

I said has been. Not will be.

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Well then you don’t need to wait until autumn. The weather is turning to shit next week in most parts of the country.

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:17

BatshitCrazyWoman · 02/08/2026 16:14

I live in London. It's been hot or very hot for weeks, I think it was about 34° on Wednesday, and over 30° on Friday. Tomorrow is forecast to be 30° where I am, 32° in central London.

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Not consistently it hasn’t. I was literally there last week (Central London) and it was a high of 25 degrees. I needed my jacket in the evening. Back next weekend and it’s going to be 22 degrees and cloudy on Friday and Saturday. I’m gutted because I’m going to a rave on Saturday and hate carrying a jacket but I’ll need to so I don’t freeze on the walk home.

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cravingcrispmornings · 02/08/2026 16:17

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:11

I can’t comment further as I’m not sure where you are exactly. Just searched my favourite spot in the South-West and it’s 17 degrees at 8am tomorrow.

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I said has been. Not will be.

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Whosthetabbynow · 02/08/2026 16:16

BatshitCrazyWoman · 02/08/2026 16:14

I live in London. It's been hot or very hot for weeks, I think it was about 34° on Wednesday, and over 30° on Friday. Tomorrow is forecast to be 30° where I am, 32° in central London.

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Shocking isn’t it. I’m off to Ireland tomorrow for two nights and it’s forecast to rain!!! Rain!!! Joy!!!

BatshitCrazyWoman · 02/08/2026 16:14

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 15:41

Whereabouts in the country are you? We’ve been keeping an eye on London weather as we’re spending time there on and off this summer from overseas, and it most certainly hasn’t been hot for 2 months? We’re back there next week and I can see that next weekend it’s rainy/cloudy with a high of 22 degrees celsius, which is positively COLD in my books.

I guess what do you count as unbearable heat? For me it’s 35+ degrees, not 22…

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I live in London. It's been hot or very hot for weeks, I think it was about 34° on Wednesday, and over 30° on Friday. Tomorrow is forecast to be 30° where I am, 32° in central London.

probablyamunreasonable · 02/08/2026 16:13

I like (early-mid) autumn too but I don’t want to wish the summer away. Once autumn is here, it’s here to stay and it only gets colder and darker.

September to beginning of November are ok but after the clocks go back it’s a real slog. Heating bills are expensive, it’s dark at 4pm, everyone’s catching winter bugs and I hate having to wear a coat everywhere. Christmas is a bit of joy in the darkness but after that I can’t wait for spring and feel so happy when the daffodils come out.

Zanatdy · 02/08/2026 16:12

Live in the South East and in a flat at the moment. Moving to a house in the North West soon and it can’t come soon enough.

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:11

cravingcrispmornings · 02/08/2026 16:09

Mornings have been coming out at 24/25 lately. I’m active - by 8am I’ve walked nearly 4,000 steps, all outdoors.

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I can’t comment further as I’m not sure where you are exactly. Just searched my favourite spot in the South-West and it’s 17 degrees at 8am tomorrow.

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cravingcrispmornings · 02/08/2026 16:09

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:09

But how can you be sweaty by 8am on days where the temperature reaches 26 degrees. That would suggest a morning temperature of high teens? If it’s menopause/hormone related, fair enough, but it’s not the norm to struggle when it’s 18-19 degrees out.

Mornings have been coming out at 24/25 lately. I’m active - by 8am I’ve walked nearly 4,000 steps, all outdoors.

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BIossomtoes · 02/08/2026 16:09

We went on holiday at the beginning of June and it was wet and cold for the entire fortnight. That’s my one and only complaint about eight weeks of beautiful weather - it should have come a little sooner!

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:09

But how can you be sweaty by 8am on days where the temperature reaches 26 degrees. That would suggest a morning temperature of high teens? If it’s menopause/hormone related, fair enough, but it’s not the norm to struggle when it’s 18-19 degrees out.

FancyBiscuitsLevel · 02/08/2026 16:09

This coming week is supposed to be more traditional English summer- I’m being promised low to mid 20s and a clouds.

I never thought I’d say it but I’d be glad for some rain so I can stop carrying watering cans of water to the plants I put in this spring.

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cravingcrispmornings · 02/08/2026 16:06

Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:05

I definitely wouldn’t consider 26 degrees unbearably hot and think it’s very unusual if one is sweaty by 8am in this kind of heat. Most people wouldn’t be. 36 degrees, yes. 26 degrees, no.

Each to their own. Down here it’s been awfully muggy, and the heat has been pretty incessant from the get go. 24 degrees used to be a very, very hot day down here. Now 26 is our minimum.

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Crushed23 · 02/08/2026 16:05

I definitely wouldn’t consider 26 degrees unbearably hot and think it’s very unusual if one is sweaty by 8am in this kind of heat. Most people wouldn’t be. 36 degrees, yes. 26 degrees, no.

BIossomtoes · 02/08/2026 15:58

cardibach · 02/08/2026 15:50

I meant to say in my earlier post - we could do with some rain, for sure, for gardens, agriculture and to remove the risk of wild fires, but we don’t need autumn. Overnight rain and more of what we’ve got 8n the days would be ideal.

Yes, a proper downpour overnight would be perfect. We definitely don’t need autumn.

cardibach · 02/08/2026 15:50

I meant to say in my earlier post - we could do with some rain, for sure, for gardens, agriculture and to remove the risk of wild fires, but we don’t need autumn. Overnight rain and more of what we’ve got 8n the days would be ideal.

cardibach · 02/08/2026 15:49

FoxRedPuppy · 02/08/2026 15:48

I’m not running as much as I am never motivated to get up early and then it is too hot. Exercising in autumn/winter is so much easier.

I have no idea how anyone can be be motivated to get up at 6am for anything, and I’m a bit of a running addict!

Exercising in winter isn’t easier. It’s too bloody cold to leave the house for a start! And dark. Ugh.

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